Haleigh Cummings 5,SATSUMA, Fla. NEWS Part II!

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By Ann O'Neill, CNN
January 21, 2010 3:17 p.m. EST

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* Ronald Cummings, Misty Croslin nabbed in undercover drug sting
* They and three others allegedly sold $3,900 worth of pills to undercover officer
* Croslin faces felonies that could send her to prison for 25 years
* Police say they hope clues will surface about missing Haleigh Cummings


Haleigh Cummings disappeared from her mobile home in Florida nearly a year ago.

(CNN) -- The father of missing child Haleigh Cummings and his ex-wife have been arrested on drug-trafficking charges in Florida, authorities said.

Ronald Cummings, 26, faces three counts of trafficking prescription medication -- including Oxycodone and Hydrocodone. He is being held in jail on $500,000 bond, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said.

Misty Croslin, 18, faces six counts of trafficking prescription medication and is jailed on $950,000 bond.

The former couple was arrested Wednesday along with three others after allegedly selling about $3,900 worth of drugs to undercover officers, sheriff's officials said.

Cummings, Croslin and the others made brief court appearances Thursday morning, said Lt. Johnny Greenwood. But the court clerk's office said it had not yet received information about whether they had been assigned attorneys.

An undercover investigation was launched after authorities received information about suspected drug dealing, Greenwood said. He added that this probe was separate from the investigation into Haleigh's disappearance.

"Even though these are totally separate, they are parallel cases, and there's no doubt in my mind these cases will cross some day," Greenwood said. "I hope that somewhere through this, the investigators in the Haleigh case will find the information they need."

Two of the counts against Croslin are felonies that carry mandatory 25-year sentences if she is convicted, Greenwood added.

Haleigh Cummings, then 5, vanished February 9 from the couple's Satsuma, Florida, mobile home. Misty Croslin was the last person known to have seen Haleigh the night she disappeared.

She said she tucked Haleigh and her 4-year-old brother into bed about 8 p.m. and went to sleep herself two hours later. She awoke at 3 a.m. to find the girl missing and a cinder block propping open a back door.

Ronald Cummings called police and reported his daughter missing when he returned from work at dawn.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said in August that "the evidence and investigatory effort has minimized the likelihood that Haleigh's disappearance is the work of a stranger."

Ronald Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, Haleigh's mother, are not considered suspects, police said.

Investigators said in a statement last August that they believe Croslin "continues to hold important answers in the case" but has not provided "any sort of detailed accounting of the hours during the late evening and early morning of Haleigh's disappearance."

Investigators also said that physical evidence contradicts Croslin's account.

Croslin has not been named a person of interest or suspect in Haleigh's disappearance. In televised interviews, she has said she does not know what happened to the little girl but believes "the other side of the family" knows where she is.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/21/...ted/index.html

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Ronald Cummings and Misty Croslin accused of trafficking in prescription medications.

* By Dana Treen
* Story updated at 9:24 AM on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010

Instead of marking the anniversary of her disappearance, the tumultuous end to a year in the search for Haleigh Cummings has collapsed into a mix of deeper troubles for her father and former stepmother and what investigators hope is a shot to solve the case.

The arrest Wednesday evening of Ronald Cummings and his former wife, Misty Croslin, on drug-trafficking charges could mean dozens of years in prison for the pair, whose relationship has been either building again in the past months or is nothing but an attempt by Cummings to discover a deep secret about Haleigh’s disappearance, family and investigators said.

“They’re gone for years,” said Lindsy Croslin, of possible sentences faced by her 18-year-old sister-in-law and others charged in the case. That includes her husband Hank Croslin Jr., Cummings’ cousin Hope A. Sykes and Misty Croslin’s friend Donna M. Brock.

“She’s going to lose her whole life over this,” Lindsy Croslin said of Misty.

The five were charged following the monthlong investigation that involved 330 pills of oxycodone and hydrocodone. One undercover agent bought drugs several times then offered to sell pills before the arrests were made. The estimated street value was $3,900.
Misty Croslin is being held on $950,000 bail; Cummings, $500,000; Brock, $250,000; Sykes, $150,000; and Croslin Jr., $100,000.

Misty Croslin faces six counts of trafficking in prescription medications, while Cummings, 26, is charged with three counts. Croslin Jr., Sykes and Brock each face one count of trafficking in prescription medications. All but Brock are from Satsuma. Brock is from Orlando and was with Misty when they were pulled over in October in Central Florida accused of road rage.

At an afternoon news conference, Dominick Pape, special agent-in-charge of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement office in Jacksonville, said an investigation into where the prescription medication came from is still occurring and more arrests are expected.
Misty Croslin faces 74 years in prison if she is convicted of all six counts and the maximum sentence is imposed, said Lt. Johnny Greenwood of the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, which led the operation after a tip from the street. Cummings faces a possible 43 years in prison.

Greenwood said the drug investigation was kept separate from the search for answers in the disappearance of Haleigh, who was 5 when she vanished from the double-wide mobile home in Satsuma that Cummings and Misty Croslin shared with Haleigh and his then 3-year-old son, Ronald Jr.

Haleigh, whose disappearance was reported in a 3:27 a.m. 911 call on Feb. 10 remains missing.

It is the first time Misty Croslin has been arrested, her family said Thursday at their mobile home in Satsuma about a block from where she and Cummings lived.

For almost a year, detectives have said she is the key to the case as her stories have been inconsistent. Greenwood said detectives in Haleigh’s case will be asking her and the others arrested what they know.

“It’s really too early in the case to know if it is the break,” Greenwood said. “I’m going to be honest, we hope [it is].”

Palatka attorney Robert Fields, who has represented Misty Croslin during the investigation, said he was able to speak with her briefly Wednesday night.

“It’s still evolving,” he said. Fields said whether the drug case has any relation to the Haleigh investigation is up for speculation.

“Intelligent people can differ on that, so we’ll see what happens,” he said.

With the exception of Sykes, everyone arrested Wednesday has had an involvement in the case.

In a roller-coaster relationship, Misty Croslin married Cummings in a backyard ceremony at his grandmother’s not long after Haleigh disappeared. The relationship deteriorated and the couple divorced.The two had begun seeing each other again, though family members of the two differ on what the relationship means.

“He shouldn’t have been talking to Misty Croslin,” said Cummings mother, Teresa Neves. “She brought his butt into this.”

Cummings and his former wife had been seeing each other occasionally and were to meet Wednesday about 5 p.m. after he finished working at a tree-trimming job, Neves said.

She said she believes her son and Sykes were staying in contact with Misty Croslin in the hopes of learning what happened to Haleigh. “They didn’t see a lot of each other,” she said.

She said she the arrest of her former daughter-in-law could mean a break. “I think she will talk with the hopes of getting out,” Neves said.

She believes Misty Croslin’s bail was set purposely high to keep her locked up.

“Maybe she’ll flip and tell us where Haleigh is,” she said. “That is the only [good] thing that can come out of this.”

At the Croslins’ mobile home, family members said there a stronger relationship was evolving between the divorced couple.

Lisa Croslin, Misty’s mother, said Cummings last week paid for a tattoo inked on her daughter’s lower back.

“It’s like a tribal thing with his name on top of it,” she said. “Ronald Cummings Sr. is what it says.”

Cummings and his former wife talked daily and saw each other as often as every other day, she said.

“She would spend the night over there and everything,” she said.

Hank Croslin Sr. said he believes investigators are misguided. While he and his wife signed permission papers so their 17-year-old daughter could marry Cummings, he later began having misgivings.

“Ronald marries her,” he said. “He doesn’t act like somebody whose baby is gone. He doesn’t.”

The focus on his daughter should be shifted, he said.

“They need to investigate that family like they have ours,” he said. He said he believes his daughter has increased as a target since turning 18 in December.

For detectives, there are reasons to talk with the others who were arrested in the undercover operation.

When Croslin Jr. was arrested on unrelated charges in September, he told detectives for the first time that he had been at Cummings’ trailer the night Haleigh disappeared and banged on the window looking for his sister after Cummings repeatedly called from work.

Croslin said no one answered his knocks.

Brock once was a member of EquuSearch, a Texas-based volunteer group that does horseback and other searches for missing people. For a time last summer, Brock was subsidized by the group to befriend Misty Croslin, said EquuSearch founder Tim Miller.

Miller’s group spent 12 days in Satsuma unsuccessfully searching for Haleigh when she first disappeared.

He said Brock befriended Croslin and took her to Universal Studios and on other trips in an effort to learn more about what may have happened to Haleigh.

Miller said he sent Brock a certified letter about three months ago telling her she was being dropped from the organization.

As the February anniversary of the disappearance approaches, some plans to mark the year have been scrambled but not abandoned. Neves said her son’s bail is too high for the family to afford, but they will still do what they can to focus on her missing granddaughter.

“Hopefully Misty will talk and Haleigh will come home,” she said.

Neves said Ronald Jr. is staying with her mother. “He’s doing very well,” she said.

Crystal Sheffield, the mother of Haleigh and Ronald Jr. could not be reached Thursday. Sheffield has been estranged from Cummings for several years.


http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/crime/2010-01-21/story/haleigh_cummings_father_former_stepmom_in_trouble_ again

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Paid informant in Haleigh Cummings case arrested in drug bust with Misty Croslin

Anthony Colarossi Orlando Sentinel

12:28 a.m. EST, January 23, 2010


An Orlando woman who was with Misty Croslin during a road-rage incident in Lake Mary last year and was arrested with her during this week's prescription-drug bust in Putnam County was more than just a friend.

She was a paid informant for a national search group bent on one objective: finding out what happened to Satsuma 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings when she disappeared. Croslin was baby-sitting the girl one evening in early February when she said she woke up and found Haleigh missing.

Donna Brock was a volunteer member of Texas EquuSearch and part of initial searches for Haleigh. Eventually she befriended Croslin.

That relationship and trips they took together were initially meant to help investigators and searchers draw out Croslin and get her to tell them where the child was, said Tim Miller, Texas EquuSearch's founder and director.

The search group paid Brock about $3,000 to entertain Croslin and get her to open up, Miller said this week.

Paying someone to be an informant is not illegal. It is not clear whether Putnam County investigators were aware of Brock's role with the search group.

"They met each other when we were doing the search for Haleigh," Miller said. "Misty trusted her and liked her." Later, Brock, 44, indicated she could get Croslin, 18, to speak.

"Donna says, 'Tim, I think I can break her. I think I can find out what happened to Haleigh,''' Miller said.

That never happened. Haleigh's whereabouts remain a mystery. An investigation into her disappearance continues in Putnam County.

Brock's life took a sharp turn Wednesday when she was arrested on a prescription-drug-trafficking charge along with Croslin. Ronald Cummings, Haleigh's father and Croslin's ex-husband, and two others also were arrested after a sting operation led by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office.

Brock was held at the St. Johns County Jail on Friday on $250,000 bail, charged with trafficking in oxycodone. Croslin was held there too, on six trafficking charges, with bail set at $950,000.

Putnam officials have said the prescription-drug case and the continued effort to determine what happened to Haleigh are separate investigations. But they expressed hope the drug case will provide new information about Haleigh's disappearance.

Croslin's relationship with Brock, who has a residence in Orlando and one in North Carolina, could be an important link for investigators, or her value in finding the child may be worthless.

"It started out she was trying to get information," Miller said.

Miller paid Brock several thousand dollars during a few months to take Croslin places and to entertain her with the hope the young woman would provide a better explanation of what happened the night Haleigh went missing, he said.

Brock was with Croslin in early October when, according to Seminole County Sheriff's Office reports, they chased and harassed a driver on Interstate 4. The incident immediately gained media attention.

On Oct. 30, Miller sent Brock a letter terminating her membership with Texas EquuSearch. He said he became concerned that her membership in the search organization would undermine its credibility.

An undercover detective with the Putnam Sheriff's Office bought prescription medications from Croslin's and Brock's group seven times recently, officials said. They estimated the drugs' street value at $3,900.

The arrests of Croslin, Cummings and the others is the latest chapter in a long, sad story surrounding Haleigh's disappearance.

The investigation has been marked by speculation, rumors and unsuccessful searches in the largely rural stretches around Satsuma and outside the nearby Ocala National Forest.

"The shame of it is all this stuff has taken the focus off of Haleigh," said Miller.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,6915774.story

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Haleigh's Dad Told To Make Funeral Arrangements

Sunday, April 18, 2010

SATSUMA -- Haleigh Cummings' father was reportedly told to start making funeral arrangements for his missing daughter.

However, an attorney for Ronald Cummings said his client hopes the tip that led investigators to search the St. Johns River near Walaka was a false lead.

Investigators spent three days searching the river south of the Satsuma home where Haleigh disappeared from in February 2009.
That search was prompted by a tip from Misty Croslin's brother, Hank.

After searching, the Putnam County sheriff announced the search for Haleigh is now a murder investigation.

Misty Croslin, who was the last person to see Haleigh alive, was also brought to the search scene.
Croslin and Cummings are in jail on unrelated drug charges.

Croslin’s grandmother said Misty told her while she wasn't involved in Haleigh's death, she knows someone tied a brick to Haleigh and then dumped her body in the St. Johns River.

Investigators are not saying what they think happened to Haleigh.

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2010/4/17/haleigh39s_dad_told_to_make_funeral_arrangements.h tml

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Does Misty Know What Happened To Haleigh?

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Reported by Amanda Evans

SATSUMA -- Misty Croslin’s grandmother has claimed she knows what happened the night Haleigh Cummings disappeared.

Flora Hollars said Misty confessed to her, but insisted she was not involved.

Misty was the last person to see Haleigh alive in February 2009, before the girl, then 5, disappeared from her Putnam County home.

Hollars said she told Misty it was time to come clean.

“Baby, don’t cry,” Hollars said she told Misty. “This is something you should have said a long time ago. She says, ‘But Nanny, I was scared.’”

That, Hollars said, was when Misty broke down and told her everything.

She said she believes Misty was not involved, but knows what happened to Haleigh.

“Tied a brick block to the rope and dropped her into the St. Johns River,” Hollars said.

Haleigh’s great-grandmother, Annette Sykes, said she could not come to terms with those details.

“I know that statistics say that chances are that she’s dead, and that may be so, but statistics have also been proven wrong many times,” Sykes said.

Hollars said Misty told her Haleigh was dropped into the river, but would not tell her why Haleigh was killed.

“It’s hard to hear something like that, that your child or grandchild is dead,” Sykes said. “That’s something that’s hard to hear. We’ve heard so many lies. You don’t know what to believe anymore. I tend to not believe anything. Show me, just show me. Don’t tell me, show me.”

Investigators said there are persons of interest in the case, but did not immediately release any names.

According to published reports, Misty Croslin’s brother, Hank Croslin, Jr., was the one who pointed investigators to the St. Johns River after meeting with them earlier in the week.

Croslin, Jr., reportedly took a lie detector test April 8, during which he was questioned about the night Haleigh disappeared.

Misty Croslin was also brought to the search scene by the river.

She and Haleigh’s father, Ronald Cummings, remain locked up on unrelated drug charges.

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2010/4/16/new_details_emerge_in_haleigh39s_disappearance.htm l

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Report: Grandma says Misty Croslin confessed details of disappearance

By SARA K. CLARKE - The Orlando Sentinel

Published: Sunday, Apr. 18, 2010

Misty Croslin’s grandmother said the teen broke down and confessed to her, saying she knows what happened to 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings, according to a media report.

According to the report, Croslin’s grandmother, Flora Hollars, said Croslin confessed to her, but insisted she was not involved. Channel 13 reported Saturday that the grandmother said someone “tied a brick block to the rope and dropped her into the St. Johns River.” Hollars said Misty told her Haleigh was dropped into the river, but wouldn’t say why she was killed.

Fourteen months after Haleigh disappeared, authorities say people involved in the case are starting to break down and talk, including Croslin, the 5-year-old’s former stepmother. She was the last person to see Haleigh before she vanished from her father’s Satsuma home.

After more than a year of chasing leads in the case, Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy said Thursday that the girl is “most likely dead.”

Detectives are investigating her case as a homicide.

Divers searched the St. John’s River this week, recovering items. But it was not known if they are related to Haleigh’s disappearance.

Hollars told the Sentinel earlier this week that she shared information she learned from talks with Misty with investigators.

“Every time I talk to her (Croslin), I get a little bit more and a little bit more,” Hollars said by phone from Nashville, Tenn.

http://www.bradenton.com/2010/04/18/...#ixzz0lQT2aFif

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Will the Haleigh Cummings' Homicide Case be Solved this Week?
By John Kays

Published: April 18, 2010
By John Kays

NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE?

Since it was first reported that 5 year old Haleigh Cummings vanished from her Satsuma trailer home on February 10, 2009, I have been following this case. I have tried to write about this case before but nothing ever makes any sense to me. As I got to know the Croslins and the Cummings (by way of the media) things only got stranger and stranger. The media ate up this sickness as if the Barnum and Bailey Circus had moseyed into town.

I sensed that Ronald Cummings didn't really believe that a complete stranger had abducted his lovely little girl. "I just got home from work and my 5-year-old daughter is gone," he told a dispatcher. "If I find whoever has my daughter before you all do, I'm killing them. I don't care if I spend the rest of my life in prison." (ABC News-Police Say 5-Year-Old Haleigh Cummings is Dead, Identify Persons of Interest in Case by Emily Friedman-April 16, 2010)

Right from the get go law enforcement in the small town of Satsuma, Florida seemed suspicious that this abduction was an internal matter, a family affair. PCSO Maj. Gary Bowling said on February 11, 2009, "All the world's a suspect. We're going to treat everybody, every family member, every associate, every neighbor as a suspect until we can eliminate them." Finally they're honing in on the culprits.

FLORA HOLLARS TALKS

Flora Hollars is the grandmother to Misty Croslin, Hank "Tommy" Croslin Jr. and Joe Overstreet. Grandma Flo is not withholding anything. Misty told Flo, allegedly, that someone "tied a brick block to the rope and dropped her (Haleigh) into the St. Johns River." Tommy confirmed to Flora that his cousin, Joe Overstreet, killed Haleigh. Flora said, "Joe is the one who did it." Flo and Joe live in Nashville, Tennessee.

It has been reported that Flora Hollars is the source for the tip that led authorities to a specific area of the St. Johns River, a boat ramp at Shell Harbour Road. This area is only five miles from the trailer home where Haleigh disappeared from. This is incorrect. The tip actually came from Tommy Croslin, who took a lie detector test on April 8th.

IS COUSIN JOE A RED HERRING?

Levi Page, a true crime reporter, believes that Misty and Tommy's latest version of the events of the evening of February 9, 2009, is another bold face lie. They are now fingering their cousin, Joe Overstreet. Levi said on Jane Velez-Mitchell, "Cousin Joe is a Red Herring." The Croslins have been lying all along, why are they suddenly pointing the finger at Joe? Are they covering up their own involvement?

Joseph Overstreet

Did cousin Joe kill little Haleigh in an amphetemine-fueled rage, over a machine gun? This makes no sense! photos by John Kays
This new account has Joe visiting the trailer to pick up a machine gun that he thought Ron owed him. Was this over a drug deal? According to this latest tall tale, when Joe couldn't find the gun, he put a knife to Misty's throat, then abducted innocent little Haleigh; you know the ending. Was this part of Misty's dream of five mysterious figures looming over her bed on the night in question? Shawn Sirgo, Joe Overstreet's attorney, said his client is "broken over this," "doesn't know where to turn" and "knows he is being used by people whose story keeps changing." (CNN)

A DISJOINTED TIMELINE

Since it seems as if the case is coming to an end (that may be a mere appearance), I returned to the beginning of events yesterday. I then struggled through the confusion of the timeline, which comes to 14 months, attempting to tie things together. Befuddlement came over me!

Feb. 9, 2009-April 18, 2010-what I see is a string of disjointed subtopics; all I see is a rambling sequence of events with no apparent meaning.

If this post seems random or disjointed, that's because it is. The facts in this case, as they've been piped through our media, have heretofore made no sense at all. It's like a string of beads, but without any string. Events appear random, inconsequential? Oddly enough, once law enforcement solves the case, everything will suddenly make sense. The beads will have a string. Two examples from this timeline will prove my case of IRRATIONALITY: 1. the marriage and divorce of Ron and Misty and 2. the sensational drug bust of last January!

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE OF RON AND MISTY

Ron asked Misty to marry him at a Chili's in March of 2009, around a month after Haleigh disappeared. Did Ron not suspect that Misty may have been involved somehow in his daughter's disappearance? I suspect that he did, but was perhaps in denial. In October of 2009, just 7 months later, the odd couple decided to call it quits. The reason cited is the constant pressure from the media. Were these two ever in love? Maybe.

Ron and Misty

Why did Ron and Misty marry, then divorce seven months later? Were they in LOVE?

DRUG BUST-TRAFFICKING IN PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

How could these people be so stupid as to engage in trafficking prescription drugs, such as Oxycodone and Hydrocodone, after the media and police were watching them constantly like hawks? It cannot be understood. It's irrational. But drug dealing of prescription pills must be most lucrative! Ron, Misty and Tommy were snarled in a sting operation last January by undercover officers. The previous October, Misty had been robbed of her purse when going to purchase drugs. Unbelievable!

STEVE BROWN, FORMER FBI AGENT, KNOWS WHO DID IT!

Steve Brown is a private investigator working for Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield. Steve knows the ending to our story, but his lips are sealed.

The tension mounts. The Putnam County Sheriff's Office must build their case carefully, if it's going to hold up in court. Steve Brown has been working on the case for 10 months and has apparently put the pieces of the puzzle together. One telling comment of Brown's: "There may be other people culpable, but as to who killed Haleigh, that's not going to be a big surprise." Try me Mr. Brown!

Former FBI agent, Steve Brown, has solved this case. When will we know what he already knows?

WHAT MADE THE MEDIA GO BERSERK?

At first I wasn't so interested in the Croslin/Cummings case. That changed after the drug bust and after the developments last week. I was shocked by Flora Hollars new revelations, especially with regard to cousin Joe. But Folk in the media, such as Nancy Grace have thrived, almost exclusively, on any trivial details brushing on Ron or Misty, and now on Tommy. This is hard to explain, but I'll give it a try.

It must spike the ratings! Yes, it's just that simple. Nancy Grace showcases it almost every night. She would drop it if it were a dud. I loved the tour video of the Cummings' trailer, because you could do a reenactment of the crime. Yet I seek wider, sociological causes for the staying power of Misty and Ron. I've read many comments of people on press coverage of the case.

The Croslins and the Cummings are portrayed as poor white trailer trash, and are thought of as if they are the Hatfields and the McCoys. People love to see stupid, feuding white people, screwing up royally. It's that simple. Everyone loves to watch the drug sting videos and see the swagger of teeny Misty. She is an unlikely narco-trafficker; she looks like she's no more than 15 years old. Doesn't look like a big drug pusher, but this is just what pushes the ratings through the roof!

TWO THEORIES FOR HALEIGH CUMMINGS' DEATH

As we wait for the case to break, as we watch divers plunge the depths of the St. Johns River, we grow tenser and tenser. Do you recall how you felt on the 4th of July, when you were very young, and a bully neighbor lights a Black Cat firecracker at your feet? You see the lit fuse, your pulse surges, and you anticipate the explosion about to occur. Will your foot blow off into the air? Probably.

Misty Croslin

What did Misty Croslin reveal to authorities on the Shell Harbour dock? photos by John Kays

A. That's how tense we are. Will we find out this week? I doubt it. Theory one has a drowsy Misty, coming off a three day binge of drugs and sex, slipping Haleigh a pill of Oxycontin to quiet the child so that she can sleep. Haleigh ODs on the pill. When Tommy comes over, they decide to dispose of the body, throw it in the river and make it look like a predator killed her.

As far-fetched as this is, this theory could be the one.

B. Theory two has the cousin Joe doing it. Joe looks over the trailer for the machine gun, holds a knife to Misty's throat, then abducts Haleigh; flees to his favorite fishing spot, the Shell Harbour Road ramp on the St. Johns. (Overt your eyes here) Flora says a yellow rope was used, then cinder blocks were attached to the rope and crazy Joe threw the child overboard. Flora says that Joe had guns and knives. She also says that when Joe returned to Nashville he was sullen or ashen, as if he had been traumatized by some foul event. The only way that I can make this theory work, is if Joe was on amphetamines. This is highly possible though. These kids were doing many drugs at this time. And Joe suspiciously left Florida right after Haleigh vanished. Family members are afraid of him too. This may be the one.

ST. JOHNS AS MYSTIC RIVER

By now everyone has seen a shackled Misty Croslin on the boat ramp, taken out of jail, to talk to authorities at the supposed scene of the crime. The exclusive film footage was shot from a helicopter by WKMG-Channel 6.

Before Misty wasn't talking, but now she is. Why? In the movie Mystic River, Dave Boyle gives a false confession to Jimmy Markum about killing Jimmy's daughter. Jimmy then stabs him in the stomach, shoots him, then tosses his body in the Mystic River. We stand as ONE on the Shell Harbour Road boat dock.

John Kays identifies timeless remnants from our past that will endure, or be admired by future generations.

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